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plurimae

plurimae is a Latin form of multus, meaning “much, many”. It is the nominative plural feminine superlative adjective.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 2.95: … imidos et imperitos, sine nostra, sine reliquorum hospitum regis sententia facta in gynaecio est, quo in loco plurimae res venierunt et veneunt. qua ex syngrapha quid sis acturus meditere censeo: rex enim ipse sua sponte, nullis …

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.9.13: … enim ostendit brevis secunda syllaba casu nominativo, aliud eadem syllaba producta casu dativo aut ablativo. Plurimae praeterea sunt aliae species, quas persequi nihil necesse est.

All forms of multus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.